Combination shoe-tool



'Unire D. J. TAPLEY, 0F DANVERS, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINATION SHOE-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,223, dated August 17, 1858.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL J. TAPLEY, of Danvers, in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have in vented a new and useful Combination Shoe* Tool; and I do hereby declare that the fo1- lowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in making a combination tool which shall perform the three consecutive operations that are now performed by three different tools, viz., the tack-stamp last-hook and pegcutter,7 thereby saving considerable expense, as well as the inconvenience of having three separate tools upon a bench instead of one, and the loss of time which results from laying down one tool and looking up another.

To enable others, skilled in the art, to make and use my invention, I will now describe its construction and operation.

D is a wooden handle.

A is the peg-cutter which may be of any shape in common use.

B is the last-hook attached to the handle, D, by means of the shank C.

a, the end of B, is the tack-hole-stamp, being a circular depression, like those in common use.

Operation: Vhen the boot, or shoe, is nearly finished, and the tacks have been withdrawn, the operator first stamps the tack-hole by striking on the extremity, b; second, he extracts the last by means of the last-hook, B; and, third, he cuts out the pegs by means of the peg-cutter, A, and as all these operations are consecutive no time is Iost in looking up a separate tool.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of the tack-hole-stamp, last-hook, and pegcutter, substantially as described and for the objects specified.

DANIEL J. TAPLEY.

Witnesses:

N. P. MERRIAM, TIMOTHY HAwKEs. 

